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This guide provides comprehensive methodological frameworks for designing research studies in the field of entrepreneurship. It helps users match specific entrepreneurial theories or questions (e.g., founder cognition, financing signals) to appropriate research designs, covering qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods. Crucially, it details how to address endemic challenges unique to studying new ventures, such as selection bias, survivorship bias, and establishing proper temporal precedence.

This guide provides a rigorous framework for designing empirical and qualitative studies in the field of entrepreneurship. It emphasizes a 'theory-first' approach, guiding researchers on how to structure designs that effectively test theoretical mechanisms while addressing common methodological challenges such as selection bias, survivorship bias, and establishing temporal precedence. Essential for manuscripts targeting top-tier journals in the field.

This guide helps researchers determine if their manuscript is suitable for high-tier entrepreneurship journals like the Journal of Business Venturing (JBV). It provides specific criteria covering theoretical contribution, the centrality of the entrepreneurial process, methodological rigor (e.g., addressing selection bias), and adherence to journal house style, helping authors re-frame their work before submission.

This guide helps researchers determine if their core contribution is focused on measuring or refining a specific risk or uncertainty primitive (e.g., ambiguity attitudes, VSL, probability weighting). It provides a framework to assess scope fit and distinguish between behavioral anomalies, methodological findings, and foundational risk theory, ensuring the paper is positioned correctly for high-tier academic journals like JRU.